Blackmailing The Poor

With twilight nearing, the U.S. House of Representatives late last Friday night passed the first minimum wage increase in a decade.

But not until the House Republicans first poisoned the concoction with language to cut inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, which, when it all goes through the meat-grinder, results in a dilution of the purported increase of funds for the lower and middle income classes..

Another way of looking at this is that the poor got theirs, but so did the rich.

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